The 2017 Washington Jewish Film Festival (May 17-28) includes 63 feature-length and 18 short films from 25 countries, and showcases the diversity of Jewish life through time and across the world. In addition to the film program, the Festival will host talkbacks and panel discussions with dozens of filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad. Opening …

Continue reading “2017 Washington Jewish Film Festival Schedule Announced”

One of the 20th century’s greatest and — yes — most versatile performers is Doris Day, who celebrates her 95th birthday today. Born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, her first dream was to be a dancer, until she was injured in an automobile accident. So, she became a singer, and her version of …

Continue reading “Happy Birthday Doris Day!”

Great news! Tina Fey is producing a new show, another sitcom set in a television studio, and it’s called…”Great News.” Andrea Martin stars as a woman who becomes an intern at her daughter’s television news show. It premieres April 25, 2017.

Is time universal? Is everything connected? Albert Einstein revolutionized the way we think about the universe and even the way we think about science. In National Geographic’s engaging new series “Genius” we see Einstein as a young patent clerk in Germany (played by Johnny Flynn) and as a mature academic working in the United States …

Continue reading “New on National Geographic: Genius, the Story of Albert Einstein with Geoffrey Rush”

This week Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, and Michael Caine star in the remake of the 1979 comedy heist film, “Going in Style,” starring George Burns, Art Carney, and legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg (Hyman Roth in “The Godfather 2.”) In the original film, three men in their 70’s decide to rob a bank mostly because …

Continue reading “Original Version: Going in Style”